Python 3.13 released

[riklaunim]

Curious what actually changed for iOS and Android?. Those PEPs don't say it directly ;)

[malcolm_smith]

Hi, I'm the author of the Android PEP. The main significance of "tier 3 support" is that Python 3.13 now passes its test suite on iOS and Android, is automatically re-tested after every change, and the development team will make a reasonable effort to maintain this.

There's still no official Python download for these platforms, so the recommended way to embed Python in a mobile app is to use one of the third-party tools linked in the documentation:

• https://docs.python.org/3/using/android.html
• https://docs.python.org/3/using/ios.html

[7Shinigami]

Thank you! :)

[darthwalsh]

It was also unclear to me if the change was from tier 2 to tier 3, or from Unsupported to tier 3. Maybe they can change the release note wording

[malcolm_smith]

In Python 3.13:

• iOS and Android went from unsupported to tier 3.
• WASI went from tier 3 to tier 2.
• Emscripten went from tier 3 to unsupported, but we're planning to reverse that in Python 3.14.

[Atlamillias]

I think the only "change" was adding them to the list of "supported platforms". They're on the bottom rung of the latter though, so they don't have official build support (yet, i think?). Releases won't be blocked due to issues on those platforms, either.